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Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam by Patricia Crone

Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam Patricia Crone ebook
Page: 301
ISBN: 0691054800, 9780691054803
Format: pdf
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Crone demonstrates that Islam did not originate in Mecca. Rather than in Central Arabia, where the development of trade, but also the diffusion of Judaism and Christianity, was still was very limited in the first third of the 7th century (Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam, Princeton U.P. A Response to Patricia Crone's Book: Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam. In Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam(1987) she made a detailed argument challenging the prevailing view among Western (and some Muslim) scholars that Islam arose in response to the Arabian spice trade. Mecca is located in the Hejaz region of what is today Saudi Arabia. It would be very interesting o compare what was happening in Mecca before rise of Islam. As a result of the conference with the Jewish delegation, however, Abu Sufyan became more conscious of the danger to the Meccan trade by the further spread of Islam. Download The English Version · Download The Arabic Version. In her book, Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam, Dr. Patricia Crone is professor of Islamic history at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Comparative Religion, Institute of Religious Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Leiden, The Netherlands.